I love clocks I have to say and must stop buying them from auctions with a view to repairing them....maybe!
Before clocks were common we had our inner clock to tell us when to awaken, the kirk or the local alehouse had a bell that would be rung to let everyone know the time. Even more interesting I think is that how humans see time.
There are two ways. In Time and Through Time, we do not all see time the same way. Some see time ahead and behind, others see time left and right. It is thought those who are not great time keepers are those who see time beside them not ahead.
Another factor in standardizing time was the conjunction of telegraphs and meteorology.
If you wanted to correlate the weather reports and trace a storm, you needed to know the reports' relative time.
Love it. Time is fascinating, especially how human beings learns to calculate time accurately in the long history. Thanks for hard work.💕
I love clocks I have to say and must stop buying them from auctions with a view to repairing them....maybe!
Before clocks were common we had our inner clock to tell us when to awaken, the kirk or the local alehouse had a bell that would be rung to let everyone know the time. Even more interesting I think is that how humans see time.
There are two ways. In Time and Through Time, we do not all see time the same way. Some see time ahead and behind, others see time left and right. It is thought those who are not great time keepers are those who see time beside them not ahead.
I wrote about the lost days of 1752 in a note, again a change to unify dates with our major trading partners in Europe with the switch over from the Julian to Gregorian calendars. (https://substack.com/@brucehardacre/note/c-267006710?r=8i13sj&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web)